Platform Engineer

Summary

Join SilverRail, a global leader in transforming online rail travel, and become a Platform Engineer. This role involves designing, building, and operating our cloud-native SaaS platform using industry-leading tools and practices. You will contribute to enhancing our infrastructure, support customers, manage service reliability, and develop automation systems. This is an ideal opportunity for someone with less experience but strong ambitions to grow their career in Platform Engineering. You'll gain hands-on experience building a next-generation SaaS platform and be part of a global team committed to sustainability and innovation. SilverRail offers a competitive benefits package and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Hands on experience in operations engineer, DevOps, SRE, sysadmin role or academic knowledge
• 1+ year of industry experience in an IT function, and exposure to Public Cloud services
• Foundational knowledge of Linux based operating systems
• Awareness and exposure to programming practices and Software Development Life Cycle models
• Experience in a common programming language or scripting language (python, ruby, bash, etc)
• Exposure to Infrastructure as code concepts and languages, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM etc
• Knowledge of Git and Git based workflows such as GitOps
• Advocate of software best practices and Agile SDLC

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building and enhancing every aspect of SilverRail’s evolving infrastructure and platform as a service
• Support internal and external customers, and build on key cloud technologies
• Manage service reliability functions such as monitoring & alerting solutions, latency & load performance, uptime, and error budgets
• Develop, maintain, and utilise SilverRail’s deployment automation, configuration management, and orchestration systems
• Design, build, and manage SilverRail’s cloud environments and associated technologies
• Own the deployment process to ensure streamlined, zero-downtime, and orchestrated service delivery
• Work with cross functional teams to optimise processes, application development, and customer support
• On-call responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure and awareness to Container technologies, exposure to Container platforms such Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE/Rancher/Openshift/Anthos) would be beneficial
• Software development experience is highly valued

Benefits

• Private healthcare insurance
• Rail discounts
• Flexible working
• A wealth of career development opportunities with training that is individual, focused on improving your skills and helping you become the best professional you can be
• A number of wellbeing seminars and membership to the #1 leading meditation app
• Educational workshops around women’s health, family planning and fertility as well as progressive leave policies & hormone testing